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MAILS. Alt ay./ ED-I Gottenburgl►. Due—t Lisbon, z Cadiz, Z Dublin, ; Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS. THIS Dior AT TWELVE ba!i Red. Ann. 67 a (Minium rpr. L.7t T IT S U N. SOLZM QUIS DIC7:2E FALSUM ALIDEAT ? (7. LONDON, FRIDAY, "OCTOBER 13, 18og: I,Ve are still qnable to communicate to our readers any decisive information - respeaing the long pend ing Negotiation betwen Austria and France. Some of the last letters which have been received from the C,:ntinent speak very confide`ptly of a peace, while otiiers ai confidra tly predia the renewal of hostilities: Jr is probable, however, that in a few d#s.this great question, upon which the fate of the Continent of Europe iir a great'ineasure depends, will be decided. This morning a Gottenburgh Mail arrived. 'Jt brings no information .respeCting theterms . of the Tveaty . between - Russia and Sweden, but we have seen a Letter which states, that it is the general opinion inGottenburgh that - the Swedish Ports are to • . be shut agains . t England, and that Sweden Wilt adopt what is Called the "Continental System," and exclude all British manufaCtures. Vie confeSS that we feel considerablz anxiety to obtain authentic information upon this subject, because it will enable us to form • a coned opinion as to the views * aricl objeps of the Russian Government. If it shall appear that the - Etnperor ALEXANDER has insisted upon such terms in his Treaty with Sweden, it will prove that he is ,still acing under the Influence * :.cor ; , , rather under the 'command • of ,BCIONAPARTE, aild 4 thdt - all the reports ..‘ a whiCh have lately reached us, H of' a chnge havihg taken place in the politics of Russia, are unfounded. The following are the only articles of intelligence bought by the Mail which arrived this morning : "- SToctircitiz, OCT. lettel from Aalborgh states, that the ship's company at ;he English signal cutter which Litely was taken by the Danes, near ri Kist rand,arrived in Aalborgh the gt h of last month; i t consist.; of three lieutenants, Otie'rnid;ltipman, and thirty seamen. • . , • coreptHAGENT, REPT. 1 8.-114, Royal Directors of the Board of Health anei Quarantine, have given public notice that intelligence has been received of ,the plave having broken out in Smyrna, in the pro vinces of Natalia,. and that, consequently, that city is to be considered.as an infected place, and all other towns in Turkey as suspicious.—(Stockholm Ga ze ite.) WILLIAM HAMILTON, Eq. (son of Dr. HAMIL-. T\QN) is appointed• Under Stcretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the room of the Hon. CHARLES BAGOT. Yesterday aft&nnon, at two o'clock a Cabinet Council was herd at the Foreign Office, which Was attended by the following Members : the LORD C!-I GELLOR Earls BATHUEST a , ! CAMDEN', CHAT HA 1T I,IvERPOOL,WESTMORLAN . D, and HARItOWBY) Icrcl MULGRAVE, and Mr. PEBc4Y,AT- , Yc,terday Royal Highnes ttic prince of WALES g ve a grand dinner to his Royal Highness the Duke ot SUSSEX, Lord HEATHI'I ELT), Colonel BLOOMFIELD, Colonel'lVPMAtloN, and a large party, at Carleton Bowie. Irsterday his Roxal Highness the Duke or YORE i2nter!ained a large piny of General Officers, Szc. wi , i. an elega.a. dinner, 'at his house, Stable-yard, St, James's. • . . The cause of Lord CASTLEREAGH remaining. in the Paii ,, ce so much longer than . Mr. CANNING on Wednesday was, that his Lordship . intended at his MAJIItSTY•S Levee, and .Mr. did not. The preparations going forward,.'it Frogmore flit - a t nta r l'entertainment to be given 'l3y her Majesty, in In.nour of Maesty entering on the . ot3ih year Of in; reign, un the c...,i5th inst. is of the most splendid ni:tnre,and on the mo-t magnificent scale. . LYEI LEE.-- At a Meeting of ti , e Inhatitants,of St. iVattin's in the Fields, held in the Vestry room thji - eof, on the,gth of (Yetober, the Churchwarden in the it. was resolved, that the lnhabitanti felt thVinselves parttcu , arly called on to Join in cele brsii!-g the ensuing Job:lee, this parish being his Th -y also passed,reiolutions to the fol .• try ( :—That to clothe the naked, feed the the debtor, vt:as (be best means st ry, their set.timcntS on the approaching tor- this purpose a subscription book i c ned to receive -the donations of the .'sl.4 . l.oners ; and also a. collection should he made tLe Church doors LI, et Divine Service, to be added tr; COnti,bllllollS. Ino Lords Of the PrNy COuneil, we are informed, .I‘e arranged the toiiowing . as the distriCts from . 'hey will permit grain of all sorts, and'burr iptt;ll4..l4, to be imported from France into this coun- try , t-rot ot - the potts.in the north-east extremity' of-France itlllCtrl4, both incl,n6ive. Fvf.'rn Calais to Morlaix, ditto. lire,t - to the Straights' Mouth, ditto. .the StNights' Mouth :o an) port of France within the Niediterrancan; • • There is no foOndatiork for the report that the 15th Ligtii Dragoons are under orders to eiiiivr% for Spain, zr.td that they are Proceeding to Rirtsrnouth for that purpose. They are merely cli.anging quarters with the 7th Liot Dragoons, who hate 'been kr sonic tittle stationed, at Guildtfsrci, tram whence they pro .ed WLywouth. Tice it succeed the 151 h at ti.oiniorti. It equally incortett, that the Ist Bat ot the 7th and Bth Foot* liiivt! arr ived at Ports /110mo, " a perfet Skeleton." , They have not re turned to Europe, anti are in every resped efficient v:ttalions, at their stations. • , NAVA L NEWI PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 12.—Arrived this day the Gannet sloop of war from Guernsey. ..DEAL, OCT. I2.—ArriveFi this morning the 'Bet sey cutter from Flushing. The Cherokee sloop of war is just appointed con volio take the Dunmore, MITCHELL, to the West ward : it is expeaed they will sail this evening. SHRERNESS, OCT. W.—Caine into ,'arbour, his MAje - sty's bomb, Round. - Ocr. 11.—Arrived, his Majesty's brig Aggtessor, with four Danish vessels, her prizes; came into har ,bour, his Majesty's ship Salsette. •Ocr. t2.---Went out of harbour, and anchored at the Great Nore, his Majesty's bornh,'' Round; Majesty's,ship Leyden. - DLTCH PAPERS.. FRANKFORT, OCT. 1.- Letters from .Vienna of the 25th September state, that the Emperor Napo leon, at the grand parade which is held,claily, ; had reviewed the troops of the several Princes of the League of the Rhine, and that he 'had on the above day hunted in the park of Schoenbrunn. All the VCc - MiTtS froth Vienna . agree in representing ; the ne gociations as so far advanced, that intelligence was , every moment expe6ted of ihe signature of peace. ,The,interchange of Courieis between Schnenbfunn and the Castle of Toils, where the Emperar of Aus triacontinUes to reside, was very active. There was also expeCted a courier from St. Petersborgh, whose dispatches, it Was suPposed,. would have considera ble influence on the negociation.. An Officer of the Frenoke Staff had, a shoit time before, set off for that quarter. The ArehdukeFerdinand instill in gobe tnia; where lie . is occupied in plaCing the fortresses. in a.sate of defence. .PARIS, OCT. 3. 7-- Her Imperial Highness . . the Grand Duchess of Tuscany left Oorence on the 13111 ult. for Arezzo. She intended to pay a visit to se veral cities and towns of Toscarv, which had not previously enjoyed the hopirtess of her presence. BERNE, SEPT. 23.-1 r is reported, that on the 15th some hundreds of the Tyrole-e and and insurgenti,had advanced as far as Dalas , carried off some wine and fruit from the inhauitants. Since the 13th, all the Tyrolese fir to bear arms have been fOimed into battalions. The levy en masse is also in motion ; and it is said that Austrian 'agents have again strewn .themselves in the Pusterthal. In the Voralberg, Brockman Von Sulzberg, the Chiet of : the insurgents,' has taken post -with 130 men on the Jochle, behind Hindelang. SEPT. 2.—The Turkish army cannot again penetrate into Servia, without the sacrifice of a very considerable part of their force. Czerei George has ordered General Simon Markowisch's corps to march from the. banks of the Drina to the Morawa, to reinforce the Servian, army. This General had actually passed the Kolabara on the 26th ult. ' The •Serviaus speak in high terms of the Turkish artillery, which, is directed by French Officers. The Turks have committed great ravages in,that part of Setvia which lies on the other side of the Morawa, and extends from PassaroWitz to Tekis and Negodin. It is reported that several of the Chief Officers.of State at the Ottoman Porte have been dismissed. The Grand Vizier has adopted the most rigorous measures to compel a majority of the Pachas to join the army; in consequence of this proceeding, the Turkish force is become truly formidable, and their armies still continue to receive considerable reinforce ments. Among the late demands made by Mr. Adair of the Turkish Government, one is said to - have been, 'that free passage into the Black Sea shall 'be grant ed to the English and their Allies. COYEAT-GARDEN THEATRE. The proceedings of last night at this Theatre dif fered little from.what they were the night befdre.— The Opera of Love in a Village, was heard .attentive ly through the first two acts, and the influx of visi tors at half price changed the scene again from quiet attention' to turbulence an'd Uproar. The Pit, as be fore, was the chief region of dissension, and some pugilistic contests took place,'but not of much im portance. Several, persons attempted ttf4ddress the audience ; none, however, procured a hearing but a Mr. Ross, who exhorted the mai - contents to perse vere, but to keep themselves within legalbounis.— Several persons were taken into custody for encou raging the discontented in their riotous clamours., The Managers are accused "of having employed Jews in their service; it is easy, however, for the opponents of the 'Theatre to stigthatize their adver saries with having been hired to support the interests of the Theatre ; but surely the friends, as well as enemies of .the Managers, have a right to express their sentiments. We believevhat many persons, as well as the Conduaors of the public prints, who condemned the intention of raising the prices of ad ,mission, were convinced of the propriety orthat measure, after the decision of the Committee, arid as it is impossible to doubt the honour, competency, and the diligenCe of that Committee, we are .really surprised at the perseverance of some public writers in urging the discontented to proceed in their nightly _ riots. Nothing of the last a& of the Opera: wag heard; or of the Farce of Animal Magnetism—The spitit of mischief, however, seems to be at an end, for no at to injure the Theatre were observable. The tOrmer instruments of annoyance have disappeared, and the party that now assemble, with perhaps a few exceptions, seem to be a set of thoughtless yotalg' men, who cannot easily resign an opportunity of' kicking up a dust." • It is'Understood that Mr. WATSON gives Ma?lane CATALAN' one thousand guineas for six nights .per tim-nance at Birmingham. This fair Syitn's 4ist ,api.ealance will be On Monday next. On Wednesday evening a boat coming c,roug'i London-bridge-iiii3 - et. The Waterman "was drowl.el and the pasienser sayo, ' LORD 6PASTLEREAGH and Mr. NING. The following is a statement of , tho'conrse of the transaction, upon a misapprehens:on of the leading fads of which Lord Castlereagh's letter appears to have been founded It is perfectly true, that so long ago as Easter, Mr. Canning had represented to the Duke of Port land the insufficiency (in his opinion) of the Govern metfi, as then constituted, to carry on the affoirs of the country,- under.all the difficulties of the times,. and had, requested that, unless some change should .he effected in it, he might be permitted• to resign his offiCe. It is equally true, that in the course of the discussion, which arose out of this representa tion, it was proposed to Mr. Canning, and accepted by him, as the condition of his consenting to retain the seals of the Foreign Office, that a change should be made in the War Department. But it is not, true that the time at which that change was ultimately proposed to be made, was Of Mr. Canning's choice; and it is not true that he was:- party or consenting to the concealment of that in tended change from. Lord Castlereagh.. With respect to the concealment, Mr. Canning,' some short time previOns to the date of Lord Castle reegh's letter, without the smallest 'suspicion of the existence of any intention on the part of Lord Cas tlereagh to make such an appeal to Mr. Canning as that letter 'contains, but upon information that some Misapprehension did exist as to Mr. Canning's sup posed concurrence in the reserve which had been practised towards. Lord Castlereagh, transmitted to one of Lord-Castlereagh's most ,intimate friends, to be communicated whenever he might think proper, the copy of a letter addressed by Mr.. Canning to the Duke of Portland, in the month of July, in which Mr. Canning . requests,. " in justice to him self, that it may be remembered, whenever here after this concealment shall be alleged (as he doubts not that it will) against hint, as an act of injustice towardvLord Castlereagh, that. it did not originate in his suggestion ;,--that so far, from desiring it, 'he conceived, however erroneously, Lard Camden to be the sure, channel of communication to Lord Castlereagh ; and that' up to a very late period . he believed such communication to have been actually made:" The copy of this letter, and . of the Duke of Port land's answer to it, " acknowledging Mr. Canning 4 i repeated remonstrances against the concealment," are still in the possession of Lord Castlereagh's friend. The communication to Lord Camden, to which this letter refers, was ttra - d - e on the 28th of April, with Mr. Canning's knowledge, and at his parti- cular desire. Lord Camden being the near connec. lion and most confidential friend of Lord Castle s reagh, it never occurred to Mr. Canning, nor was - - it credible to him, till he received the most positive asseverations of the. fact, that Lord .Cacuden had kept back such a communication froth- Lord Castle reagh. With respeEt to the period at which the change in the War Department was to lake place, Mr. Canning was induced,, in the first - instance, to con sent to its postponement till the rising of Parliament, partly by the represetitations,:rnade to himself of the inconveniencies of any change in the middle of a ,Session, but principally fruin a consideration of the 'particular circumstances under which Lord Castle reagh 4tood.in they House of Commons after Easker ; circumstances which would have given to his re moval at that period of the Session, a character which it was certainly no part of Mt% Canning's wish that it shOuld Mr. Canning, however, received the most posi tive promise, that a change in the War Department should take place immediately upon the close of the Session. When-that time arrived,. the earnest apd repeated entreaties of must of Lord Castlereagb', friends in the• Cabinet were employed to prevail upon Mr. Canning to consent to the postponement of the arrangement. , At length, and most reluctantly, he did give hit, consent to its being postponed to the period pro posed by. Lord Castlereagh's friends, viz. the ter mination of the Expedition then in preparation; but did so upon -the, most distinct and solemn as surances, that whatever might be the issue of the Expedition', the chahge should take pla;e at that pe riod ; that the Seals of the War aTarttnent should then be offered to Lord Wellesley (the person for Whose. accession to the Cabinet'Mr. Canning was, known to be most anxiou. , ), and that tl.e interval,.m should be .employed by Lord Castlereao,. friends, in pillaring Lord Castlereagh's mina . to arc qiresce ip such an arrangement. It was therefore matter of astonishment to Mr: Canning, when, at tile' issoe of the _Expedition, he reminded the Duke sit Portland, that the time was now .come for his Grace's•wriiiia,:.. to Lord Welles- . ) ley, to find, that so tar trout the Interval having been employed by, bOrd castl, , reagit's friends in preparing Lord Castlereagh for the change, the same reserve had been continued towards him, against. which Mr.' , Canning had before so earnestly remonstrated. Be.. ing,informed of this circumstance by the Duke of Portland,.and :learning .at the same time Irotu his Grace, that there were other difficulties attending the promised arrangement, of which Mr. Canning had not - before been 'apprised ; and that the. Dake of Portland , had himself come to a determination to retire from office; Canning instantly, and 'be, fore any step whatever had been taken towards car rying the promised arrangement into efied, with= drew his claim, , and requested :the Duke of Port land to tender his (Mr. Canning's) resignation, at the same time with his Grace's, to the King. This was on Wednesday, the 6th of September, presTious-, ly to the Levee of that day. All question .of the performance of the prorni'ae-. made to Mr. Canning: being thus at an end, the. re-, "serve which Lord:Ca.tlereagh's‘ friends had hitherto. so perseveringly practised towards Lord Castlereagh appears to have been.laid aside. Lord Castlereagh. was now made acquainted with the nafure of the ar -rangement which- had been intended to have been, proposed to him. • What -may have been the reasons-which prevent ed Lord Castlereagh's triends from fulfilling the as . surances given to Mr. Canning, that Lord Castll.- reagWs 'mud should be prepared by their com,nuni , CatlollS for tied arrangement intended to he cal-fled tutu effect ; and what the motives for the dise,oure -to Lord Castlereagh, after that arrangement tail ceased to be M coutem. lation, it is 4ot, lut Mr. Can , icing to explain. LORD CASTLEREAGH. As this Nobleman, through the whole of his po litical career, has been the obje& of party malevo lence, and as the following sketch of his charaCter and public services is drawn,,with liberality and can •gt dour, we deem it an ad of justice to submit it to our Readers : Lord Castlereagh has been about eleven years en gaged in the public service. He became Chief Secre tary to the Lord . Lieutenant of Ireland during the rebellion which biioke out in that kingdom, and under Lord Camden and Lord Cornwallis was 'the leading instrument in connteratiling and defeating it. He then, under the auspices of Mr.. Pitt and Lord Cornwallis, undertook to carry through the Parliament of Ireland the great measure of the Union—a measure which required large comprehen 'ion of mind, the utmost address, perseverance, and courage. By : judicious Management, conciliation, ability, and firmness, he effeeted this stupendous measure, in defiance of every opposition arising, whether from self-interest, party, or disloyalty, and completed the ultimate hope of every true patriot by consolidating the Union.of the three kingdoms, un der the imperial controul . O(one common Legislature. Upon his becoming a Memberf the Imperial Parliament, the Catholic Question led to the resigna tion of Mr. Pitt. ;Lord Castlereagh resigned 'with .him, and gave up not only his office of Chief Secre tary for Ireland, bilt the place of Keeper of the Privy . Sea!, worth 1,7001. a-year, of which Lord,Sidrnouth offered to obtain a grant to him for and which his Lordship declined. ..Having thought : it his duty to support Lord Sid mouth in the Peace of Amiens, he after some 'time accepted, by Mt. Pit t's desire, the place of First Com missioner to the India Board, and lie supported Lord Sidmouth firmly and honourably till his Lord ship resigned his situation. To his conduet in that department . the Dire&ors of the East-India Company, have always .donejostice, and they have repaid hint with their honourable' testimony and support. Upon Mr. Pity's return to office, he continued in his situation, and after a few months became Seere• tart of State of the War and Coloni ., l Department ; in which rapacity he planned and effeEted the con .,.,quest of the Cape of Good Hope, a possession which Lord Melville had declared no Minister wonld dare to give up, and the concession of si;hich Lord Glen.- rifle made the chief arkUment of his opposition to thy Peace of Amiens. On Mr. Pitt's death, he resigned his situation, and continued his conneelion with Mr.. Pitt's friends, till he wis called to resign hs office, upon the injudicious . attimpt made to force his Majesty's conscience on a subjeet on which he bad agreed with Mr. Pitt not again to disquiet' his reign. It soon fel) to his department to plan and under take the'great Expedition to Copenhagen, the exe.- cuiion of which shed so much lustre in his depart. ment and the Admiralty. Whatever may be the cavils as to the principle of this Expedition, there is not a man who does not admit that it defeated the great project of Buonaparte,atter the Peace of Tilsit, viz. the uniting ail the naval resources of the Scheldt, of Holland, and the Baltic, in a combined enterprize against Great Britain. His Lordship has since planned, and successfully carried into execution, in concert with the Adnli' rat;y, an Expedition a,zainst Th e quest of this island was formerly achieved by the late Lord Grey in 48 days, with a very considerable lots of mu!. By his Lordship's' measures it was effeded' in 23 days, with hardly any loss. The subje& of Spain and Portugal would lead to, long and tedious . disquisitions. Portugal was reco vered, and it, was not for want of means that it was not satisfactorily recovered.' When our armies were. to contend in Spain,, the enemy had become greatly superior in numbers, and the question does not vile ly-vely upon our success or failure, but Avon the po-P lidy,of assisting Spain, supposing our success to be lrcmely doubtful. The unfolding of this policy be ongs not to our present statement. • The last operation in which his Lords Pip engaged was the important expedition to the Scheldt, as to Which no man has queitioned the policy, if the whole of its object could have been attained; and no one has doubted`t he sufficiency of military means employed in the enterprize. We believe also, no One has doubted the pradicability of the measure under favourable circumstances. ~: t ~ • o enable.the country to make these efforts, to give.her a disposable army, to plaCe her in.a situation. Ofatility to cut off the colonie ; of Buonap-arte, and a;si-,t the efforts of Spain and . Austria, li;s Lordship took every- wise means. of increasing the military , force; he restored permanence to the army by re; establishing rectuiting for an unlimited period ; he induced the Militia to ,he subsidiary to the army, which he increased to the amount of .50,600 rdnl and file; and he reduced into order the anomalous force, of the Volunteers by the establishment 'of the Local Militia ; a : measure which, if persevered in, and regulated with judgment, must render the hitt., dont at-ill fifties unattackable. • Falsehoods without end have :been circulated against Lord Castlereagh, and he has been stated to have obtained 36,0601. a-year for himself- and his friends. Lord Castlereagh now retires from office, after. eleven years service, without the slightest re ward of any kind in honour or emolument ; and we - :o be t lit ii t e . co vell n i n e e o Li n i l Ls tw , : places he has obtain e d f or a ny area Military Government for Ge neral Stewart, his brother, who has more than earn ed it by his military achievements; and an office of 6001: a-year to Lord G. Seymour, which . was in corn pensatiOn for an office in Curacoa, given 'to him by ; hiq brother,. who took that island, and which was not irtsiored to him vt)hen Curacoa w as recaptured, which ` had been done in almost every other instance. From the short review we have made, it will ap- - peat' that. Lord Castlereagh's public life has been distinguished by a perpetual series of important mead. sure?. They are the proofs ofan intelitgent, active, laborious mind. If the Ernpir , - can preset ve the Cape of Good Hope and Martinique, it will owe them to Lord Castlereagh—but at all events it will owe to. hith the Union. That, measure may have rendered hit'n unpopular to all' who opposed it, 'to all who may ti'e been personally losers by it iit interest and nye por Wx but it will render his name hereafter pope' Lir : in the-Empire, and iarnOus in posterity ; Ireland already feels it value in ail its exports and its agria culture.. •